Well, I've been slow about posting today because I took today off work. One of the nice things about my company is that they give you your birthday off -- and you can take your birthday "day off" anytime during the week of your birthday. So I'm giving myself two four-day weeks in a row. I would have taken my birthday off -- it's Friday -- and given myself a four-day weekend, except that they are strict about my taking days off around the end of the month. That's when billing closes and final sales are due. Blah.
I had a nice weekend. The ol' improv troupe had a show Friday night. Man, it really didn't go well at all. First off, the performance space was hotter than a fat man in a sauna. Second, our publicity person didn't do that great of a job getting the word out about the show, so we had about 10 people there. That's not so horrible (although we have been pulling in many more in the past), but they always sit in the back rows and leave the front ones empty. It's like they're in church or something -- no one sits in the front rows.
And third, we just didn't perform that well at all. The show started off very slowly, not too many laughs, and the audience wasn't even responding to the funny stuff all that well either. There were a few parts where we actually could hear the crickets chirping outside because the audience was making no noise at all. Great. Only other thing we needed to make that better was to have a tumbleweed blow through. We did have some funny moments, but overall it didn't go so great.
Saturday I cleaned and we had some friends over to watch "The Original Kings of Comedy," a movie that I love and now own on DVD.
Sunday had the lovely wife preaching at a nearby church. Then we went on a long walk around town because the weather was so beautiful. On Sundays the city closes down Memorial Drive right along the Charles River so people can bike and roller-blade and whatever in the street. And we sat along the river and watched everyone go by, including numerous roller-bladers who should not have been wearing spandex. There was this one guy we ended up calling "The Lemon Wonder." He was wearing these really bright yellow short shorts, a tight tank top that was another shade of "screamingly bright" yellow, and then this horrible other shade of yellow on his headband, which was holding back this long scraggly hair. And he was on roller-blades. And he was showing off every time he went past us, spinning around and trying to do the splits and such. Much giggling ensued, let me tell you.
I've actually been fairly productive here on my day off. While I have not yet put on any tight yellow clothing of my own and gone roller-blading, I did escort Amy to work downtown in this huge office building where she's been temping. Then I just took care of some other chores -- everything from rolling all the change I'd accumulated in my change cup to getting a new battery for my watch to picking up our TripTik from AAA for our trip to Portland, Maine, this weekend.
And then tomorrow it's back to work.
I had a nice weekend. The ol' improv troupe had a show Friday night. Man, it really didn't go well at all. First off, the performance space was hotter than a fat man in a sauna. Second, our publicity person didn't do that great of a job getting the word out about the show, so we had about 10 people there. That's not so horrible (although we have been pulling in many more in the past), but they always sit in the back rows and leave the front ones empty. It's like they're in church or something -- no one sits in the front rows.
And third, we just didn't perform that well at all. The show started off very slowly, not too many laughs, and the audience wasn't even responding to the funny stuff all that well either. There were a few parts where we actually could hear the crickets chirping outside because the audience was making no noise at all. Great. Only other thing we needed to make that better was to have a tumbleweed blow through. We did have some funny moments, but overall it didn't go so great.
Saturday I cleaned and we had some friends over to watch "The Original Kings of Comedy," a movie that I love and now own on DVD.
Sunday had the lovely wife preaching at a nearby church. Then we went on a long walk around town because the weather was so beautiful. On Sundays the city closes down Memorial Drive right along the Charles River so people can bike and roller-blade and whatever in the street. And we sat along the river and watched everyone go by, including numerous roller-bladers who should not have been wearing spandex. There was this one guy we ended up calling "The Lemon Wonder." He was wearing these really bright yellow short shorts, a tight tank top that was another shade of "screamingly bright" yellow, and then this horrible other shade of yellow on his headband, which was holding back this long scraggly hair. And he was on roller-blades. And he was showing off every time he went past us, spinning around and trying to do the splits and such. Much giggling ensued, let me tell you.
I've actually been fairly productive here on my day off. While I have not yet put on any tight yellow clothing of my own and gone roller-blading, I did escort Amy to work downtown in this huge office building where she's been temping. Then I just took care of some other chores -- everything from rolling all the change I'd accumulated in my change cup to getting a new battery for my watch to picking up our TripTik from AAA for our trip to Portland, Maine, this weekend.
And then tomorrow it's back to work.
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